Giovanni Francesco Romanelli: A Baroque Visionary Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610 – November 9, 1662) stands as a pivotal figure in the Italian Baroque artistic landscape—a painter whose luminous palette and meticulous detail captivated audiences and cemented his legacy within the canon of European art history. Trained under the tutelage of Pietro da Cortona, Rome’s dominant artist of his era, Romanelli embarked on a prolific caree…